Community Tasting Notes 7

• ericed Likes this wine: 92 points

  March 16, 2024 - Opaque and inky. Nose doesn’t offer much other than “smells like Northern Rhône Syrah”. Blackberry, bacon, roasted meats and spice are prevalent. Mouth coating tannins. Perfect level of acidity ties everything together. Always a favorite.
  
  Great pairing with a Morgan Ranch Waygu striploin medallion. The beef brings the black and blue fruits to the forefront. I also think this would go perfectly with any lamb dish.

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• jonh1 Likes this wine: 92 points

  December 22, 2023 - Fresh and medium bodied Syrah. Red cranberry, vanilla, smoke and bacon. Quality wine - drink with sauced grilled pork.

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• Sonoma-W Likes this wine: 92 points

  September 19, 2023 - Very nice - a top 2020

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• forceberry wrote: flawed

  February 16, 2023 - 14,5% alcohol.
  
  Dense, youthful and fully opaque purplish-black color. The nose feels closed, earthy and dull with underwhelming aromas of sweet blackberry jam, some dusty notes, a little bit of boysenberry marmalade and a hint of alcohol. There's nothing much going on in the nose. The wine feels dry, understated and a bit soft on the palate with a full body and reticent, somewhat primary flavors of blackberry marmalade, some dusty notes of earth, a little bit of candied primary fruit and a hint of sweet, sunny dark fruit. The wine is medium-to-moderately high in acidity with quite tough and assertive tannins that bring in welcome firmness to balance out the softness in the body. The finish is rich, juicy and quite grippy with a dull and rather short aftertaste of dusty earth, some boysenberry, a little bit of meaty umami, a hint of cherry marmalade and a touch of earth. The high alcohol makes the wine end on a rather hot note.
  
  Most likely the wine was ever-so-slightly corked. Nobody noticed any obvious TCA aromatics, but the muted fruit flavors and somewhat earthy-and-dusty overall feel made us think the wine wasn't in a sound condition and most likely was suffering from a minute amount of TCA, making the wine just dull and underwhelming without making it appear overtly flawed. What a disappointment.

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• pgm wrote: 93 points

  January 12, 2023 - Classic peppery syrah with blueberry and black currant fruit. It’s got some sanguine notes at first, but gets nice and floral with a couple hours. Bright acidity, and though it’s ready to drink now, there’s good tannic structure for aging for another 10 years or so.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2020
• Type Red
• Producer Bedrock Wine Co.
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation T 'n' S Blocks
• Vineyard Hudson Vineyard South
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa / Sonoma
• Appellation Carneros

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• Pending Delivery 17 (3%)
• In Cellars 529 (85%)
• Consumed 80 (13%)

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